Tekin stated that revolutionary studies were carried out in Hakkari and that Türkiye stood out in the OECD report.

Tekin, who came to Hakkari to participate in various programs, visited the Governorship and received information about the work in the city from the Governor and Deputy Mayor İbrahim Taşyapan.

Tekin then attended the "Provincial Education Evaluation Meeting" and evaluated the educational activities in the city with Deputy Minister of National Education Celile Eren Ökten, ministry administrators, provincial and district national education directors.

In his statement after the meeting, Tekin thanked the administrators, teachers, non-governmental organizations, political parties and local administrators who coordinated the studies for contributing to education.

Stating that he is happy that the local authorities see education as the top priority wherever they go, Tekin said: "We also made our evaluations in Hakkari. Since 2002, we have carried out revolutionary work in education throughout Türkiye, which will be recorded in the literature in terms of international indicators in terms of physical capacity, human resources and technological infrastructure. In terms of the number of students per classroom and the number of students per teacher in Türkiye, in the latest OECD 2025 education report, Turkey is an OECD member in this sense." "It has reached a point where it can be pointed out among countries. It is one of the two OECD countries that has no or least deficiencies in terms of human resources. These statements are included in the 2025 OECD education report evaluation."

Emphasizing that this situation is not only in terms of human resources but also in terms of the number of students per classroom, Tekin said, "When we look at Hakkari specifically, we had 1527 teachers in Hakkari in 2002, and now we have 4 thousand 176 teachers. You can say that the number of students was low in 2002, but the number of students has also increased, so when we look at it, we had 58 thousand 457 students, now we have 61 thousand students. "However, our number of teachers has nearly tripled. This is an achievement that brings us closer to international indicators in terms of the number of students per teacher. I thank all our teacher friends for this." he said.

"WE NEED TO RAISE A GENERATION THAT WILL TAKE CARE OF OUR SENSE OF UNITY AND TOGETHER"

Tekin stated that in 2002, there were a total of 1148 classrooms throughout the city, and that they built 2,139 additional classrooms during this period.

Stating that the investment return for the resources spent on classrooms is 18 billion lira, Tekin said, "While there was no Science and Art Center in 2002, today there are 3 Science and Art Centers. While there were gyms in only 9 schools in 2002, now there are gyms in 31 schools. While we had only 52 laboratories in 2002, today we have 190 laboratories. While there were only 39 school libraries in 2002, there are now 170 schools." "These are important indicators. I would like to thank everyone, especially our President, who gives education a priority in the budget." he said.

Emphasizing that the 2025 PISA scores confirm Türkiye's rise and success in education, Tekin said: "On September 8, that is, about a month ago, the OECD announced the PISA scores and said, 'Turkey is the only OECD country that increased its average in mathematics, literacy skills and science in every field measured by OECD.' While we could not rank in the top 30 among 38 OECD countries in the 2003 exams, we are now in the top 15 among 91 countries. This is a very important achievement. We did these in an academic sense. The second dimension that society expects from us. We need to raise a generation that will protect the society they grew up in, social values, our state tradition, our national tradition, and our sense of unity and solidarity. In other words, we need to provide an education that will not only increase academic success but also make us proud to be a member of the nation and carry our values to future generations."

Reminding that they have implemented the Turkey Century Education Model, which they expect to achieve significant gains from both perspectives, Tekin made the following evaluations: "We have created a curriculum in which our children will gain national and spiritual values, values that will enable them to grow up to be a member of this society and this state, our national unity, solidarity, social solidarity, justice, human rights, democracy and compassion in all our lessons, from foreign language lessons to mathematics lessons, from literature lessons to history lessons. We We started this process at the beginning of 2024. Now, a law was passed in the Turkish Grand National Assembly for a Terror-Free Turkey that will take this process we started to a very different point politically. What we wanted to do with the Turkey Century Education Model was to raise a generation that emphasizes and cares about human rights, brotherhood, democracy, fundamental rights and freedoms, the constitutional state and the rule of law. When we solve this and strengthen our national unity and solidarity, Türkiye's economy will be improved. development and social development will accelerate further."

Tekin thanked the politicians, non-governmental organizations, academics and everyone else who contributed to the process and said, "It will re-establish unity and solidarity in our country and re-strengthen unity and solidarity with the spirit of a Kuvayi Milliye. In this sense, we have put it on our agenda to be a part of every step to be taken, and as national education, to support this process. On this occasion, we will evaluate these issues in our programs today and tomorrow." he said.